Alaa Khawaja, Business Development Manager / Relationship Manager / Quality Managment

Alaa Khawaja

Business Development Manager / Relationship Manager / Quality Managment

Dara Group

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, BSc in Business Administration (systems)
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Business Development Manager / Relationship Manager / Quality Managment at Dara Group
  • My current job since March 2015

i currently work as the BDM for Dara Group that falls under it Dara Realestate, Dara Trading and Dara Construction.

Business Development/ relationship management:

Exploring and branching out to new markets
Finding new opportunities to bring up to the business
Preparing Statistics and research of those new markets and maintaining a high quality standards of those markets
Coming up with new ideas and ways that would help marketing and sales teams to develop their way of attracting customers and their work functions and strategies.
Providing and preparing training to employees on any function they are managing or performing in order to make sure ISO9001 policies are met and to develop the group overall to new level
Introducing new projects and the new markets to the sales and marketing teams to work on it and training them on how to benefit the company from those projects.
Preparing slides, advertisements, data and research on the new projects and markets .
Internal Auditing and quality Management to make sure the quality policies of ISO9001 are met and maintain the drive for internal development of the company as well as the external opportunities.


Procurement and logistics:

Handling and planning all the group importing and trading of raw materials
handling and managing the customs clearance relationships work and following up with any issues that occur during the process from ports and airports all the way to the transportation to the sites .
Preparing and updating all excel sheets and clearance letters of all the imports to finalize through the customs.
Managing the financial statues with the exporting companies and site to fulfill materials price amounts and making sure the completion of all legal documents, invoices and contracts.
Management of the legal statues of the overall company and contracts between companies and our group.

General Coordinator at Canar Marketing and Advertising Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2012 to March 2015

General Coordinator
Marketing Deal closer
Marketing Plan Architect
Handling the new projects

*the company is officially a partner in Alaan T.V. channel and along with other projects as well

IPC Teacher / Section's Public Image Excutive at My Little house Int'l School
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2011 to August 2013

IPC Teaching
Event Planning
Online Marketing and Public image Handling through social media
medium to bring the parents and the school closer by finding new and improved ways of communication

General Coordinator, Head of Marketing and PR at Distinctive Sailor
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2010 to January 2012

Managing the Sailing club
Event Planning
Site overall Management
Prepare and Conduct meetings with foreign companies to sell their yachts
Marketing for individuals to join the sailing club
Conducting Marketing Plans/approaches to be used in the marketing team.

English Teacher (Home Class Teacher) at Imperial Int'l School
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2010 to June 2011

Home Class Teacher Means teach English, Maths, Science and Social Studies

English Language and ICDL Tutor (Part Time Job) at Jama Learning Institute
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2010 to September 2010

TOFEL Level 8, 9 Teaching and ICDL computer licence

Main Reception, VIP and E.R. Representative and Supervisor at Suliman Fakeeh Hospital
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2009 to January 2010

Insurance Data Entry
Patient File Issuing and Entry
Hospital Card Issuing
Insurance and Cash Patient Cashier

Teacher (Intern) Part Time at Al Kon Int'l School
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2009 to November 2009

KG teacher (taught KG3 -RESEPTION YEAR- )

Marketing and Advertising Internship (Part Time) at Canar Marketing and Advertising
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2008 to August 2009

Learning marketing Methods and applying them
Market Research
Call Center
Advertising Executing in the 3 magazines they handle
Arab student magazine
Moda Style Magazine
House of Decor Magazine
Promoting and marketing Campaigns

Complaints and Maintenance order representative and Supervisor , at Bagedo and Erfan hospital (managed by Al-Sharqawi Company)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2006 to June 2007

taking complaints from all the hospital sections decision making and issuing orders to technicians and specialists to fix the problem.
entering the data on the systems and ordering materials needed from other companies

Education

Bachelor's degree, BSc in Business Administration (systems)
  • at The Open University of Milton Keynes, UK
  • July 2014

Studied I.T. for 3 years prior to changing my major to be full Business Administration instead of having a Doubled Major in I.T. and Business

High school or equivalent, High School Diploma / Science Track
  • at AL-Noha High School
  • June 2009

Specialties & Skills

Marketing Science
Management Science
Public Administration
Business Relations
General Business Administration
translating English to Arabic (plus legal and business terms)
Microsoft office word , excel , powerpoint , publisher , infopath , outlook
photoshop , lightroom
proffesional letter writing, emailing and faxing

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
French
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • learning new languages , new skills to improve myself
    currently trying to improve my french language skills and trying to learn Spanish language. since learning new languages is the key to different cultures doors. also trying to be familiar with new computer soft-wares that has to do with designing and planning to help me more team-effective in my career
  • Words To Describe me
    Punctual, Respect rules, responsible, creative, group leader accepts criticism openly, very patient, works good under pressure, Does not give up and always try my best, tolerant to changes within the work environment , and best of all enjoy working as it challenges me to be my best. interested in all types of self improving programs especially those serve the community .
  • Reading, Internet surfing , Traveling
    reading massive book collections and searching for whats new ,also traveling to get to know new cultures and people have impacted my personality a lot and have made me a better person with much maturer mind than most of my generation peers ,which have given me a higher edge in what i do in all aspects . when it comes to work or learning new things i always try to be the best in what i do